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...they saw. Animals became part of the great chain of being and illustrators freshened their efforts to give birds and mammals moral characteristics. Perhaps the best and, ironically, the most obscure was Ernest Griset, whose influence can be seen in the works of such disparate artists as Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, and the whole phalanx of present-day New Yorker cartoonists. In Ernest Griset by Lionel Lambourne (Thames & Hudson; 88 pages; $8.95), even hints of Miss Piggy can be seen in the antic portraits of hogs and frogs and owls. The result is a rare pictorial biograph that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves for $4.95 and Up | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. Michael Moriarty, 38, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Holocaust); and Anne Hamilton Martin, 35, a publicist and sometime actress with Moriarty's Potter's Field Theater Company; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 19, 1979 | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, presided over the final round of the Ames Moot Court competition at the Law School last night, hearing arguments on a fictional case prepared and presented by third year law students...

Author: By Andrew B. Herrmann, | Title: Law School Students Hold Mock Court | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...like giant Weeble rebounding to its feet, Potter returns to Marilyn's doorstep. A scene in Boston Garden heralds the end of this opera: he proposes to Marilyn. Another unmarried man breaks ranks...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: One Sings, the Other Two Don't | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

Pakula and Brooks hide one serious--and disturbing--social comment in the giggles of Potter's second-engagement bliss. In An Unmarried Woman, the heroine proudly disdained the need for a male companion. It seems, however, that Potter cannot go more than a month without a mate. Are we to infer that men who can't live without women are "lovable" and "sensitive?" Brooks, whose Mary Richards pioneered as television's securely single woman, sells single men short...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: One Sings, the Other Two Don't | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

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